Overlook Walk Finally Opens as the New Seattle Waterfront’s …
Oct 4, 2024 · This Friday afternoon, the City of Seattle will officially cut the ribbon on the long-anticipated centerpiece project of the $806 million waterfront revamp — a pedestrian overpass, park space, and gathering venue connecting Pike Place Market with the …
Updated Seattle Growth Plan Adds Five Neighborhood Anchors, …
Oct 17, 2024 · In its letter on the initial draft of zoning changes, the Seattle Planning Commission — appointed by the mayor and city council to weigh in on issues just like these — directly called out this issue. “The current housing market locks the most affordable homes, multifamily apartment buildings, into small areas of the city that are often along noisy and polluting major highway corridors or ...
How Copenhagen is Leading the World in Sustainability
Feb 23, 2024 · Copenhagen is especially remarkable for its commitment to clean air through ‘Project Air View,’ a unique partnership between Google, university researchers, and the local government.From 2018-2019, a Google Street View car, equipped with air quality measurement technology developed by researchers at Utrecht University, rolled through the streets of Copenhagen to collect information on ...
2025 Opening for Full East Link Sits on a Razor’s Edge
May 10, 2024 · Sound Transit’s contractors are now 80% complete with reconstructing the “plinths” that hold up tracks along the I-90 segments of East Link, the ones that were found to be defective in 2022.But the projected date for contractors to complete that work has already slipped from this July to August.
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3 days ago · By the time the Seattle City Council convenes for the first meeting of the Select Committee on the Comprehensive Plan on January 6, a group of residents from every single council district will have been pushing to scale back proposed zoning changes in their midst, all using similar arguments around lack of infrastructure and loss of neighborhood character.
Urbanism 101: How Urban Agriculture Can Boost Food Security
May 6, 2024 · In the United States, around 54 million people were food insecure and 23.5 million lived in food deserts in 2022, according to the USDA.In some parts of Washington state, nearly 20% of people were food insecure.
Study Ranks U.S. Cities by 15-Minute City Potential
Aug 16, 2021 · # Americans typically associate the kind of accessibility offered by 15-minute cities with European metropoles, but with smart planning 15-minute cities can thrive in the United States too. Step aside, New York and Los Angeles. According to a newly published study by moveBuddha, mid-size American cities of 250,000 to 750,000 residents dominated the …
2024 General Election Endorsements - The Urbanist
Oct 17, 2024 · LD1, Position 1: Davina Duerr. Rep. Davina Duerr has been a stalwart vote on housing and climate issues and a real asset in the state house. She holds the distinction of being recognized in The Urbanist’s annual legislative hero roundup four straight years thanks to her tireless work on these issues. Some lawmakers are all talk, little action, but Duerr’s legislative successes show she is ...
Urbanism 101: Hostile Architecture - The Urbanist
Dec 11, 2023 · # All urban design and architecture is implemented with a particular goal in mind — often to shape people’s behavior in a particular direction. Hostile architecture, also known as unpleasant or exclusionary architecture, or defensive urban design, is a type of design which "uses elements of the built environment to guide or restrict behavior," particularly relating
Urbanism 101: Solutions to the Housing Crisis and Bad Zoning
Nov 9, 2024 · In Part I of this article, we discussed what zoning is, the history of zoning, and the seeds of the housing crisis that zoning produced.In Part 2 we’ll look at solutions. The relationship between zoning and the housing crisis is complex, as discussed in Part I.Many of the consequences of early zoning rules are still embedded in the urban infrastructure of cities today, and have continual ...